of kearney



W. JOULE.

LINOLEUM BUG MANUFACTURE.

APPLICATION FILED on. 25. 1911.

1,810,3Q6B Patented July 15, 1919.

5] woe/whoa WILLIAM JOULE, or KlilARNEY, NEW

COMPANY, or KEARNEY, NEW

JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'ro THE JE sEY, A coaromrron o u-Ew JEEsEY.

NAIRN LIEoLEUM LmoLEUM-nue MAEUFAc'rURE. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it knownthat I, WILLIAM JouLE, a citizen of theUnited States, 'ney, county of Hudson, and State of New residing in Kear- Jersey, have invented certainnew and use- Improvements in Linoleum-Rug Manufacture, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to linoleum manufacture and particularly to the method of cutting rugs from the web'upon which they I re rinted, the object of my invention being Fig. 3.

o viate the necessity ofhand-cutting the rounded corners of the rugs.

' In the accompanying drawings, I

Figure 1 is'a schematic representation of a linoleum printing apparatus in which my Fig. '2 is a plan of the web 'of linoleum showing the method of operation; f Fig. 3 is 'an enlarged bottom plan ofthe cutter plate; p

Fig. 4 is a cross section on the line 44,

In the manufacture of printed linoleum rug, it is customary to feed a wide web' 10 of linoleum intermittently over the printing table 11, above which are arranged the print- 7 ing plates, diagrammatically. illustrated at 12, and by which the several colors of the pattern are impressed upon the web at successlve steps as the web is advanced. The

. printing blocks are operated insynchronism by a series of. cams 13 geared to a shaft 14, extending lengthwise of the table 11, after the fashion of the apparatus shown in the Eisenhardt Patent N0."476,135.' The web 10 is of s'uflicient width to accommodate two :or three rugs 15 arranged side by side on-the web, audit is consequently necessary to cut the web at the cated in dot and dash "lines,

' rate-the several rugs. It is ordinarily detomary, it

sired to provide the rugs with rounded cor;- ners. While the rounded corners uniformly and expeditiously by hand, I have now provided the press with an additional element by which the corners are out the subsequent hand operation to the straight-j that of the printing blocks.

points indi- Fig. 2, tosepait is a relatively simple matter to make 4 the longitudinal and transverse straight cuts 16 and-'17 by hand, as it is cus-,

has been found difiicult 'to cut" v V automatically before the web printmg table, thus limiting which are not difficult to accomplish properly.

printing table 11 a cutter block 18 carrying on its lower face curved cutter blades 19,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 15', 11919, Application filed October 25, 1917. Serial No. 198,473;

To this end I have arranged above the l shaped to thedesired radius for therug cor ners and properly spaced transversely of the q-we'bto slit the latter, through an angle of 90, at the rug corners In addition to the blades 19, each block 18 carries astripper plate 20 with guide pins 21 and springs 22. The block 18 is longitud'inally adjustable along the table 11 in like manner as the printing blocks 12 to vary the position of the cut -1I1 accordance with the variation of the size of the rugs. The operation of the cutter is synchronized with In fact, a printing block may be utilized as the mount for the cutter, and its method of supportandoperation are identical.

If rugs be printed extendlng the full width of the web 10, the diamond-shape cut- "ters operating upon the mid portion of the Web would. be omitted, leaving only the V- shaped marginal cutters at each s1de.'

The operation is readily understood. As

.the web is fed forward step by step, the

printing of the rugs in their several colors is completed. At each impression, the cutter block 18 descends simultaneously with the printing blocks 12 and slits the web at the corners of .the rugs .as indicated in Fig. 2. The cuts are made at opposite ends of the rug at successive operations, those 'at the adjacent ends of successive rugs being made simultaneously. Only the longitudinal and transverse cuts remain to be eflected by hand. A much more uniform corner cu-t 1s thus obtained, as well as-a much more expeditious h-andlingof the web than has heretofore. been possible where the rug corners, as well as the sides and ends, have been cut by hand. I

I claim as my invention:

1. In a linoleum printing machine, a sev gitudinally of the printing table, means for operating said cutter block simultaneously with the printing blocks, and arcuate knives on said block for slittin 'the web at the rug corners and leavingt e separate printed rugs uncut between the polnts of sllttmg longltudmal and transverse cutsfsimulta'neously with the printing of the web. 10

as indicated in Fig. 2.

Q i I I 1,3103% 2. In the manufacture of floor coverings, thereon at successive stepsjthe several rug a stationary combined printing and cutting; colors, and cutters operating at one point I table, means for passing thereover a continusimultaneously with the printing blocks to ous Web of floor covering material, a series slit theweb at the corners and thereby leav-- '5 of different color printing blocks spaced ing the several rugs uncut between the points 15 lengthwise of the Web above said table, each of slitting of the several rugs printed side of said blocks serving to print simultaneby side transversely of the Web. 7 ously a plurality of rugs transversely of the In testimony" whereof I have "signed my Web, means for intermittently pressing said name tothis specification. 110 blocks upon the Web to print simultaneously WILLIAM J OULE. 

